Kansas Science Education Standards Draft 2: June 9, 2005Available here from the Kansas Dept. of Education We believe it is in the best interest of educating Kansas students that all students have a good working knowledge of science: particularly what defines good science, how science move forward, what holds science back, and how to critically analyze the conclusions that scientists Read More ›
Original Article If you believe you are just a blob of cellular tissue, please raise your right protoplasm. Does your own doctor treat you like a human being, or just an accidental collection of chemicals, haphazardly arranged by dumb chance? A recent poll by the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Social and Religious Research suggests an answer. The poll finds that Read More ›
Original Article In the game of politics, the side that doesn’t show up forfeits the match. That’s why it’s hard to understand what science groups hoped to achieve by boycotting the recent Kansas State Board of Education hearings on how evolution is taught in public schools. Hearings were held in early May to consider competing recommendations from a committee of Read More ›
The work of an Iowa State University assistant professor has made its way into the Smithsonian Institute. A 60-minute documentary titled “The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe” will premiere at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History on June 23. The film is based on a book co-authored by Guillermo Gonzalez, an ISU assistant professor of Read More ›
Original article On Sept. 2, 2004, the U.N. Security Council passed a little-noticed resolution sponsored by the United States and France calling for all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon, disarmament and disbanding of Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, and for free, fair presidential elections. In the following 10 months, to nearly everyone’s surprise, two of the three major directives Read More ›
I am a public high school biology teacher, and I do an unusual thing. I teach my students more than they have to know about evolution. I push them to behave like competent jurors – not just to swallow what some authority figure tells them to believe – not even me – but rather to critically analyze, with an open Read More ›
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Quantum physics is not usually accessible to the lay reader. In this case, Discovery Institute Fellow and physicist Wolfgang Smith provides a treatise that can be read not only by scientists but also by readers unacquainted with the technical literature on quantum reality. One would not accept such an accessible book from an author who graduated from Cornell University at Read More ›
Original Article Jeff Conner knew he had to talk to school administrators when he learned his daughter was shown a video in science class that said evolutionary researchers were not scientists, and when she was assigned an essay about her beliefs on evolution and creation. At his daughter’s middle school in Gull Lake, near Kalamazoo, two seventh-grade science instructors were Read More ›
Truth Sheets about Discovery Institute File: 5 Reasons to Teach the Controversy.pdf – 116kDescription: Should we Teach Scientific Criticisms of Neo-Darwinism? Many Authorities say Yes! File: 6 myths.pdf – 60kDescription: Six Myths About Evolution Debate File: ACLU Ignore Textbooks Promoting Philosophical Materialism.pdf – 128kDescription: ACLU’s Selective and One-Sided Advocacy: Ignoring Bio Textbooks that Promote Philosophical Materialism File: ACLU Ignore Textbooks that Disparage ID.pdf – 96kDescription: ACLU’s Selective and Read More ›
Letters in the May 18, Orange County Register overwhelmingly supportive of intelligent design. Stereotypes dont engage “the essential questions” Tom Teepens column, The sham that is Intelligent Design [May 10], provides little enlightenment of Intelligent Design, displaying instead little understanding of the scientific or philosophical bases. His invectives (sham, brouhaha, gimmick, pseudoscience) do little to even support Darwins conjectures. His Read More ›
File: Patterson7-6-05.pdf – 428kDescription: Ames Tribune Letter